{"id":29381,"date":"2018-10-26T10:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T04:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29381"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T04:53:52","slug":"new-vistas-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-vistas-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"New vistas for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/new-vistas-for-india\/article23906311.ece\">New vistas for India<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SCO<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>China will host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SC0) summit at Qingdao in June, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian multi-government organization established in 2001<\/p>\n<p>3. The organization was launched by China, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan<\/p>\n<p>4. At present there are 8 members. India and Pakistan joined as permanent members in 2017<\/p>\n<p>5. SCO was a formal initiative borne out of the Shanghai Five Mechanism created in 1996 in the backdrop of US\u2019s unilateral moves.<\/p>\n<p>6. The SCO aims to create a \u2018fair and rational new international political and economic order\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>7. The SCO\u2019s objectives are centred on cooperation between member nations on security-related concerns, military cooperation, intelligence sharing, counter-terrorism and cultural cooperation<\/p>\n<p>8. SCO\u2019s Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) provides a platform for regional cooperation to combat terrorism<\/p>\n<p><u>9. Importance of upcoming summit:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russia China has been considering Iran\u2019s formally entry to SCO<\/li>\n<li>This could indicate alliance of SCO members against the U.S withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal.<\/li>\n<li>Iran\u2019s entry to SCO could strain India-USA ties and counter Indian government initiatives. For e.g. the Indo-Pacific quadrilateral with the U.S., Australia and Japan<\/li>\n<li>The SCO summit will provide a platform for India, China and Russia to foster regional ties.<\/li>\n<li>Summit to help China, Russia and India navigate the adverse effects of US\u2019s Treasury sanctions<\/li>\n<li>The summit would be significant for India as it will test India\u2019s \u2018plurilateralism\u2019 foreign policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Note: <\/em><\/strong>Plurilateral treaty is a type of multi-lateral treaty signed between a limited numbers of countries with a particular interest in the subject of the treaty.\u00a0 India is member such mini-multilateral organizations that serve a variety of purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New vistas for India SCO News: China will host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SC0) summit at Qingdao in June, 2018 Important Facts: 2. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian multi-government organization established in 2001 3. The organization was launched by China, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan 4. At present there are 8&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-vistas-for-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New vistas for India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704940675},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}